Focus Features Takes Worldwide Rights To Yorgos Lanthimos’ Next Movie ‘Bugonia’ With Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons – Cannes
deadline.comFocus Features has taken worldwide rights to Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest project Bugonia, the remake of South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet, which sees the Greek director reunite yet again with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
The trio are here in Cannes with their Competition title Kinds of Kindness, which had its world premiere Friday. Focus will release Bugonia in the U.S., with Universal Pictures distributing the title internationally (excluding South Korea).
It’s the second deal for Focus Features announced in Cannes this week (Focus picked up Woody Harrelson starrer Last Breath a few days ago), but this one will be a notable coup for the studio given that Lanthimos’ previous Oscar-winning titles The Favourite and Poor Things as well as Cannes contender Kinds of Kindness were all handled by Searchlight for distribution.
Bugonia follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
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